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'Can you shut up?' Maxine Waters SNAPS at Scott Bessent at wild hearing... but the Treasury Secretary hits back with a delicious response
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 5, 2026 | victoria churchill

Posted on 02/05/2026 1:28:08 PM PST by Morgana

Scott Bessent left Democrats fuming on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as he refused to bend to their furious yelling, including requests for him to 'shut up' and repeated direct attacks on his work.

Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary went toe to toe with California Democrat Maxine Waters over the President's tariffs at a House Financial Services Committee hearing.

Waters, in an astonishing outburst as Bessent attempted to answer her, asked the committee chair: 'Can you shut him up?'

Bessent fired back a withering response: 'Can you maintain some level of dignity?'

Congressman Greg Meeks, another Democrat on the committee, pressed Bessent on the President's business dealings, including a $500 million stake in Trump's cryptocurrency firm that was sold to a member of the Emirati royal family.

When Bessent pushed back by asking Meeks about his own trips to Venezuela, the Congressman yelled at him: 'Stop covering for the President.

'Don't be a flunky. Work for the American people. Work for the American people. Don't be a cover-up for a mob.'

Bessent later mocked a question from Representative Stephen Lynch, D-Mass, about shuttered investigations into cryptocurrency firms. Lynch expressed frustration with Bessent's interruptions, saying, 'Mister Chairman, the answers have to be responsive if we are going to have a serious hearing.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: california; crackifornia; crackiforniademocrap; madmax; marxinewaters; maxinewaters; theaterkids
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To: Morgana

LOVE him!

He has enough FU money that he can afford to make fools of them and smirk while he’s doing it.


21 posted on 02/05/2026 2:30:17 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: Morgana

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it -Rodney Dangerfield


22 posted on 02/05/2026 2:33:57 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Morgana

Maxine Waters reclaiming her time?

Captain Kirk meets Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters

https://youtu.be/j8-M5tszKvg?si=qxPo3i_WaaDPm8-f


23 posted on 02/05/2026 2:51:12 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: AbolishCSEU
Last time I saw a mouth like that, it was playing donkey dong...

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry,

24 posted on 02/05/2026 3:32:56 PM PST by null and void (We will not be emotionally blackmailed into backing off what we voted for. )
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To: Morgana

Mad Maxine is a racist bigot with a horrible wig hat stolen from a male gorilla.


25 posted on 02/05/2026 3:33:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ICE needs to join with the Indians to run the Grammyist squatters off the Indians' stolen land.)
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To: Jacquerie

No, Gregory Meeks, the idiot from New Yawk embarrasses all of them. He’s a diehard knuckledragger.


26 posted on 02/05/2026 3:37:03 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ICE needs to join with the Indians to run the Grammyist squatters off the Indians' stolen land.)
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To: Morgana

Why does the movie “Gorillas in the Mist” always come to mind when her picture is shown? She can’t help but be nasty..imagine what she sees when she looks in the mirror!!


27 posted on 02/05/2026 3:48:36 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Meeks and Maxine’s constant interruptions of Bessent, crying out “Answer the question!” over and over when he was trying to answer the question, and repeatedly crying out “Shut up!” when he wasn’t really saying much of anything were ridiculously childish, rude and stupid beyond words. Neither of them belong anywhere where civilized people gather.


28 posted on 02/05/2026 3:49:47 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Fresh Wind

“”And what will replace Marxine when she’s gone? Someone even worse?””

Look what GA got when Cynthia McKinney was out!!! I would have preferred she stay and Hank Johnson had been sent to Guam to see if it really was going to tip over!!!


29 posted on 02/05/2026 3:51:33 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: JennysCool

Ditto. I wish I could give them both a swift kick in the arse. they both desperately need it.


30 posted on 02/05/2026 3:52:50 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ICE needs to join with the Indians to run the Grammyist squatters off the Indians' stolen land.)
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To: atc23

Don’t forget

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972)[1] was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Representatives from 1945 until 1971. He was the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York, as well as the first from any state in the Northeast.[2] Re-e

And the anomaly of Reconstruction era voting


31 posted on 02/05/2026 3:53:56 PM PST by wardaddy (If u hate Trump you’re stupid or clueless what’s going on)
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To: an amused spectator

Lasting one more day is too long.


32 posted on 02/05/2026 5:24:31 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: MCSETots

Utter contempt is all they have earned!


33 posted on 02/05/2026 5:25:13 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: Thank You Rush

LOL!


34 posted on 02/05/2026 5:29:59 PM PST by Fresh Wind (I voted for Trump the Fighter, not a wussified wimp!)
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To: Morgana

“Ma’am, you need to return that wig to the James Brown Memorial Museum.”


35 posted on 02/05/2026 6:04:47 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: an amused spectator

Satan keeps these awful mummies alive because he doesn’t want them stinking up hell.


36 posted on 02/05/2026 6:06:40 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: lee martell
Trump's Cabinet 2.0 is much better.
37 posted on 02/05/2026 6:09:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Jacquerie

I saw you using an obsolete, antiquated term which is no longer in use in our language unless we are using it in historical context such as referring to a baseball league which consisted teams of black players before Jackie Robinson started to play major league baseball for the Dodgers in 1947.


38 posted on 02/05/2026 6:16:43 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Organic Panic

True that.

Can you imagine her in hell?


39 posted on 02/05/2026 6:40:44 PM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: MinorityRepublican; Jacquerie
I saw you using an obsolete, antiquated term which is no longer in use in our language unless we are using it in historical context such as referring to a baseball league which consisted teams of black players before Jackie Robinson started to play major league baseball for the Dodgers in 1947.

Jacquerie has the right era, anyway - circa 1947.

40 posted on 02/05/2026 6:43:13 PM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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